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Palm Beach Gardens may be on the verge of another playoff run. Senior running back Tommy Monday rushed for a go-ahead 7-yard touchdown with 51 seconds left as the Gators erased an 11-point second half deficit to rally past host Palm Beach Central 24-20 in a Class 8A regional quarterfinal. WELLINGTON - Palm Beach Gardens may be on the verge of another playoff run. Senior running back Tommy Monday rushed for a go-ahead 7-yard touchdown with 51 seconds left as the Gators erased an 11-point second half deficit to rally past host Palm Beach Central 24-20 in a Class 8A regional quarterfinal. Palm Beach Gardens (6-4) will play at Wellington in the regional semifinals. Monday, who rushed for...

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Palm Beach Gardens may be on the verge of another playoff run. Senior running back Tommy Monday rushed for a go-ahead 7-yard touchdown with 51 seconds left as the Gators erased an 11-point second half deficit to rally past host Palm Beach Central 24-20 in...

Hollywood Hills rallied from a first half deficit to hold on in the fourth quarter to defeat Monarch 67-63 Wednesday night at Monarch High. Trailing by six points late in the fourth quarter, Monarch's Eric Miller made a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to...

District 1: Barry Dockswell
Plans for a new parking garage, retail complex and possibly a new hotel have dominated the Pompano Beach campaigns, especially in the city's coastal District 1, where the city pier has already been upgraded.
Depending on...

Dillard High withdrew $55,725 from the budgets of school clubs, the music department and other areas to cover a deficit in the athletic budget, an audit has found.A bookkeeper at the Fort Lauderdale school made the transfers around June 11 at the...

RIVIERA BEACH — With the shooting of an 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., on their minds, about 50 parents gathered at Suncoast High School on Tuesday to brainstorm the best ways to educate African-American boys who they say are too often mislabeled by the...

Turning away more seasoned candidates, Gov. Charlie Crist took a political gamble Friday and named his closest confidant and self-described campaign "maestro" to the U.S. Senate: Fort Lauderdale native George LeMieux.
The decision trigged...

Broward School Board members cut the district's capital budget by more than half Tuesday night, meaning some schools are stuck with outdated libraries and some communities that need new schools will not have them for a few more years.
But, they also...

House and Senate Democratic leaders, negotiating into the night to forge a compromise with moderate Republicans, reached agreement Wednesday on a $789 billion economic recovery bill that President Barack Obama has called critical to pulling the country...

In the midst of a crushing budget crisis, the Broward school district mistakenly paid more than $290,000 to a Fort Lauderdale firm for a school classroom addition that it quickly scrapped. Now the district finds itself in the awkward position of asking...

Seven months after Broward School District auditors accused a contractor of overcharging taxpayers $765,000 for hurricane cleanup work, administrators have hired an outside accounting firm to scrutinize those findings.
The district can't say how much...

Small businesses hit hard by the nation's economic downturn could have a better chance to share the millions of dollars in contracts that the Broward County government will dole out this year.
A quarter of all work on county projects would be set aside...

In a time of challenge for higher education, more than 1,250 public-university leaders from across America are coming to Orlando next week for the annual meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Representing 237 research...

The European Union cut its economic growth forecasts for the region, saying rising geopolitical risks in Ukraine and the Middle East and a broader global slowdown have eroded business and consumer confidence since the spring.
The downgraded outlook,...

Metra is expected to approve a fare hike and budget plan Friday that will mark the first time in the agency's 30-year history that it will borrow money.
The proposal includes a nearly 11 percent fare increase, and part of that revenue will be used to pay...

Imagine a system of college education supported by high and growing government spending on elite private universities that mainly educate children of the wealthy and upper-middle class, with low and declining government spending on public universities...

Disbanding the Export-Import Bank, as critics of the embattled federal agency have sought to do in recent months, would hurt local businesses by cutting off access to customers abroad, Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday.
Durbin made the Ex-Im issue the focus...

There is nothing progressive about red ink.
This year, progressives will run on strengthening the economic recovery, reducing inequality, improving college affordability, promoting broad-based wage growth and making sure the most vulnerable among us...

Orange schools adopted a 2014-15 budget Tuesday that includes a new pre-kindergarten center, teacher training and several new initiatives funded by increasing revenues. But the extra cash could be short-lived.The budget includes the final year of proceeds...

Welcome back to “The Blitz Package,” your weekly destination for notable news, nuggets and intriguing Chicago Bears storylines. This week’s topic: the art of the comeback.
Face it, at some point Sunday night, you probably lost hope entirely. What...

The rise of fact-checking websites, which aim to run the statements of politicians through the truth wringer, should be a positive development for the Republic. In theory.
The problem is that these outfits claim to be faultless arbiters of truth....